en باکتری شناسی Bactriology پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><b><span style="line-height:115%">Introduction:</span></b><span style="line-height:115%"> Bacteremia is the presence of live bacteria in the bloodstream. Without treatment, bacteremia can progress to&nbsp;sepsis, organ failure, and&nbsp;death. The goal of this study was to identify the prevalence of bacteremia and the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of pathogens isolated from patients with bacteremia in teaching hospitals in Jiroft city.</span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><b><span style="line-height:115%">Materials and Methods:</span></b><span style="line-height:115%"> All hospitalized patients suspected of bacteremia who had blood cultures were included in the study. Information was extracted from patient records. Data were analyzed using SPSS software, with descriptive statistics.</span></span></span><br> <span style="line-height:115%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><b><span style="line-height:115%">Results</span></b><span style="line-height:115%">: The prevalence of bacteremia among 1518 patients in teaching hospitals in Jiroft city was 3.36%. The prevalence of bacteremia was 58.52% in men and 41.48% in women. <i>Escherichia coli </i>(23.53%),<i> Proteus</i> (3.92%), <i>Staphylococcus </i>(23.44%)<i>,</i> <i>Acinetobacter </i>(13.73%)<i>, Enterobacter </i>(13.73%)<i>, Klebsiella</i> (11.76%), and <i>Streptococcus</i> Spp (9.8%) were the bacteria isolated from the patients. The isolated bacteria showed proper sensitivity to cotrimoxazole, amikacin, vancomycin, and imipenem, and partial resistance to ceftriaxone and cotrimoxazole.</span></span></span><br> <b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Conclusions:</span></b><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""> Given the potential for changes in bacterial antibiotic susceptibility and the emergence of antibiotic resistance at different times, it is recommended that physicians avoid blind treatment and ensure antibiotic susceptibility testing in patients with candidemia.</span></span></div> Bacteremia, Bloodstream, Infection, Prevalence 59 66 http://ijml.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-422-12&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Elaheh Eftekhari الهه افتخاری elaheh.eftekhari@yahoo.com No Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran گروه گروه قارچ شناسی و انگل شناسی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی جیرفت، جیرفت، ایران Mehdi Taheri Sarvtin مهدی طاهری سروتین mehditaheri.mt@gmail.com Yes Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran گروه گروه قارچ شناسی و انگل شناسی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی جیرفت، جیرفت، ایران